Two homes have been badly damaged in separate fires within 20 hours in Napier.
The first was in the rear flat of a house in Ahuriri early on Sunday night and the second just after noon in Onekawa yesterday.
The Fire Service was called to a house on the corner
of Waghorne and Raglan Sts, Ahuriri, at 5.42pm on Sunday.
Napier station officer Jamie Nicholl said a rear flat was "well involved" in flames when the first of three appliances arrived.
With no one in the flat, the firefighters concentrated first on successfully preventing the fire spreading to the front of the house.